“I could feel as if he was holding me and saying ‘yes, you did it’,” said lieutenant Nitika Kaul shortly after she was officially commissioned as an officer in the Indian Army. On Saturday, Kaul graduated from the Officers Training Academy (OTA) as a lieutenant at a low-key ceremony held in Chennai amid Covid-19 restrictions. “Maj Vibhuti Shankar Dhoundiyal made the Supreme Sacrifice at Pulwama in 2019... Today, his wife Nitika Kaul dons Indian Army uniform, paying him a befitting tribute...” read a tweet by Defence PRO, Udhampur, on Saturday. Kaul, who worked at a multinational corporation in Delhi, was married for under a year when Major Dhoundiyal lost his life in the Pulwama encounter. Today also, I can just feel that he is holding me and saying, ‘yes, you did it,’” said Lt Kaul.

Source: Hindustan Times May 29, 2021 21:11 UTC